{"id":7595,"date":"2023-01-10T17:26:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T22:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/pope-francis-january-prayer-intention-educators\/"},"modified":"2023-01-10T17:26:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T22:26:04","slug":"pope-francis-january-prayer-intention-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/pope-francis-january-prayer-intention-educators\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis&#8217; January prayer intention: For educators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2023-01\/pope-francis-january-prayer-intention-for-educators.html\">Source&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><b>By Christopher Wells<\/b><\/p>\n\n<p>In his prayer intention for January, Pope Francis invites educators to add \u201cfraternity\u201d to the content of their teaching, noting that \u201ceducators are witness who impart not only their mental knowledge, but also their convictions, their commitment to life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>He added that education itself is an \u201cact of love\u201d that can show us the way \u201cto recover a sense of fraternity, so we will not ignore those who are most vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Pope Francis called on the faithful to pray \u201cthat educators may be credible witnesses, teaching fraternity rather than confrontation, and helping especially the youngest and most vulnerable above all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Broadening the reach of education<\/strong><br \/>\nIn a press release accompanying the Pope\u2019s first prayer intention for 2023, the Pope\u2019s Worldwide Prayer network explains that the Holy Father \u201cwants to broaden the reach of education, so it will not be centred only on content.\u201d As authentic witnesses, the Pope expresses his hope that educators will be able \u201cto be heeded more attentively and will be builders of community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Jesuit Father Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Fornos, the Director of the Prayer Network, says that fraternity \u201cis the only path for humanity, and this is why education is essential.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Emphasizing the importance of coherence between what is taught and the lives of those who teach, Fr Fornos points to Jesus, from whom we learn \u201cthat we can only communicate and transmit to others what we ourselves live.\u201d This, he said, \u201crequires coherence in our lives between what we say and what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1I0WPaLBlRk\">Video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&nbsp; By Christopher Wells In his prayer intention for January, Pope Francis invites educators to add \u201cfraternity\u201d to the content&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}